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Cline SDK - An Open Source Agent Harness

by Ashik Nesin Ashik Nesin

The cline team has rebuild their AI foundation and has open sourced their core agent harness as sdk.

It now powers their VS Code, JetBrains, and the CLI, etc.

It is also interesting to see that it has performed well better than claude code with Anthropic models.

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How to get started?

npm i @cline/sdk

You can also install the skill as well]

npx skills add cline/sdk-skill

Architecture

It is built on TypeScript stack and each module/layer has single responsibility which you can install individually if you need.

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And also it has support for plugins as well. And it is similar to pi agent

Here are some of the examples

Reference

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